President Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer turned politician who taught Sunday School for decades, died today (Dec. 29), according to The Carter Center. At age 100, he was the country’s oldest living president.
Meredith Flynn reflects on the quiet seasons of life and what she’s learned in the process. “I will stay watchful. A quiet season doesn’t have to result in apathy,” she writes.
“In almost nine years of our parenting, neither of our daughters has ever been lost or even out of sight long enough to raise alarm. Until this summer,”
Always a nervous flyer, I prayed off and on for a few weeks before I left. But on the plane, with every bump or ding of the seatbelt sign my silent prayers took on a more frenzied pace.
Like a lot of Christians, I have a complicated relationship with the reality of spiritual warfare. If I label a trial or struggle as such, isn’t that a little presumptuous?
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